Saturday, August 20, 2005 A power outage in Indonesia that left about 100 million people without electricity has caused a political crisis. The country’s state-owned energy monopoly, PLN, has not determined the immediate cause, and the country’s president has ordered the national intelligence agency and police to investigate. The blackout appears related to deficiencies in […]
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Listening to you at last: EU plans to tap cell phones
Monday, October 19, 2009 A report accidentally published on the Internet provides insight into a secretive European Union surveillance project designed to monitor its citizens, as reported by Wikileaks earlier this month. Project INDECT aims to mine data from television, internet traffic, cellphone conversations, p2p file sharing and a range of other sources for crime […]
Iconic London mural could be restored
Monday, September 20, 2010 One of London’s most well known murals could be restored after years of neglect if plans by a group of community activists gain public support. The Fitzrovia Mural at Whitfield Gardens on London’s Tottenham Court Road was created by two mural artists and commissioned by Camden Council in 1980, but the […]
UK Wikinews Shorts: March 1, 2010
A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, March 1, 2010. Contents 1 One killed, three injured after car crash in Lincolnshire, England 2 Man found dead in toilet area of bus station in Galashiels, Scotland 3 Woman dies after being rescued from house fire in west London, England Contribute to Wikinews by expanding these briefs […]
UN to deploy over 3000 more troops to Congo
Thursday, November 20, 2008 The United Nations Security Council has announced that it intends to send up to 3,085 more peacekeeping troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite a commitment from rebel forces to reduce their fighting. The UN stated that the troops will be deployed immediately, and kept in the Congo for […]
‘Purity’ ring case taken to High Court
Saturday, June 23, 2007 Lydia Playfoot, a 16 year old schoolgirl from West Sussex, England, has been faced with expulsion by her school, Millais School of Horsham, for wearing a purity ring that symbolises her dedication to chastity. Her case, that she should be allowed to wear the ring as it is an “expression of […]
What You Should Know About S/Pdif Cables
Click Here To Know More About: De SA Australia What You Should Know About S/PDIF Cables by StuartMichael Generally the S/PDIF cable is used to deliver data from players such as DVD players, PC audio cards, CD players and other devices into stereo speakers. This cable was manufactured by Sony and Philips. It represents both […]
Man cuts off his own penis in UK restaurant
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 An unnamed Polish man, 35, is being treated at a hospital in London, England after he cut off his penis with a knife at Zizzi’s pizza restaurant on Strand Street in the city of Westminster. “We were called at 9.00 p.m. on Sunday to a restaurant on the Strand to reports […]
Ukraine opposition candidate Yushchenko is suffering from a Dioxin intoxication, doctors say
Saturday, December 11, 2004 VIENNA –Doctors from the Rudolfinerhaus clinic in Vienna say “there is no doubt” Ukrainian opposition leader Victor Yushchenko was poisoned with Dioxin. Yushchenko’s body had about 1,000 times more than the normal concentration of the toxin. It is unknown if there were any other poisons in his system. Although it has […]
Powerful earthquake rocks southern Japan, tsunami warnings issued
Sunday, March 20, 2005 KYUSHU, Japan – A powerful magnitude 7 earthquake rocked Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu at 10:53 am local time today (0153 UTC), prompting the Japanese Meteorological Agency to issue tsunami warnings for the area. The tsunami warnings were canceled later in the day. A 75-year-old woman was killed in Fukuoka city […]